cURL / Mailing Lists / curl-library / Single Mail

curl-library

Re: Compile failure on Fedora 13 systems.

From: Ben Greear <greearb_at_candelatech.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:08:23 -0700

Thanks for the suggestions.

I think the problem was some issue with not fully cleaning after doing a pull
of the latest code.

I backed up 500 commits, did a build (which worked), did a 'make distclean', and now
top-of-tree works again.

Thanks,
Ben

On 08/24/2016 10:07 AM, Spork Schivago wrote:
> Also, what version of libcurl did you upgrade to? I know with one of my CentOS systems, I used the cityfan repo's to pull a much newer version of libcurl in.
> That worked like a charm. I see the city-fan repo has libcurl-7.50.1-1.0.cf.fc13.x86_64.rpm for Fedora 13. I believe that's a precompiled library
> though. Is it possible for you to try installing via the city-fan repo?
>
> If not, sorry for bugging you.
>
> Ken
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Spork Schivago <sporkschivago_at_gmail.com <mailto:sporkschivago_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Ben,
>
> Sorry for the confusion. I didn't mean upgrade it to the latest version, just update it to the latest version that Fedora 13 provides. I'm guessing you
> already have it installed and updated though. I think the end of life for Fedora 13 was back in 2011, so it'd make sense that you'd have a fully updated
> Fedora 13 system.
>
> Someone had suggested adding m4_pattern_allow(PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR) to configure.ac <http://configure.ac>. A person had the same error but with a different
> project. That might be worth giving it a shot until someone more knowledgeable responds.
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Ken
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Ben Greear <greearb_at_candelatech.com <mailto:greearb_at_candelatech.com>> wrote:
>
> On 08/24/2016 09:10 AM, Spork Schivago wrote:
>
> I take it you have pkg-config already installed. If not, you should probably install that. If it's already installed, I'd make sure it's fully
> updated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> It can be very inconvenient to patch that type of tool, so I want to make whatever changes are needed
> in Curl instead of in the OS.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
> Ken
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Ben Greear <greearb_at_candelatech.com <mailto:greearb_at_candelatech.com> <mailto:greearb_at_candelatech.com
> <mailto:greearb_at_candelatech.com>>> wrote:
>
> I updated to a more recent libcurl, and now one of my older build machines
> will not compile it:
>
> buildconf: running autoconf
> configure.ac:1456 <http://configure.ac:1456> <http://configure.ac:1456>: error: possibly undefined macro: PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
> If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> See the Autoconf documentation.
> buildconf: autoconf command failed
>
>
> Any idea the most appropriate fix for this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> --
> Ben Greear <greearb_at_candelatech.com <mailto:greearb_at_candelatech.com> <mailto:greearb_at_candelatech.com <mailto:greearb_at_candelatech.com>>>
> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library <https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library>
> <https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library <https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library>>
> Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html <https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html> <https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
> <https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html>>
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library <https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library>
> Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html <https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html>
>
>
>
> --
> Ben Greear <greearb_at_candelatech.com <mailto:greearb_at_candelatech.com>>
> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library <https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library>
> Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html <https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html>
>
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library
> Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
>

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb_at_candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------
List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library
Etiquette:  https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
Received on 2016-08-24